Harris added that she would consider a run in the context of who, in 2028, could do the best job as president “for the American people.”
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the Democratic Party’s nominee for the presidency in 2024, said on Friday that she was considering running for president again in 2028.
Harris, making an appearance at a meeting of the National Action Network, a civil rights organization founded by Reverend Al Sharpton, was asked directly by Sharpton if she was going to run again.
“I might, I might. I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about it,” Harris said, as the crowd at the New York City event cheered in response.
Harris added that she would consider a run in the context of who, in 2028, could do the best job as president “for the American people.”
Harris, who served as vice president under President Joe Biden, lost her 2024 presidential bid to President Donald Trump, who won both the popular vote and the Electoral College. Harris had previously served as a U.S. senator and as attorney general of California, among other offices. Harris made an unsuccessful run to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 2020.
A run in 2028 for Harris could face challenges among voters who have indicated in polling that they want to see new leaders for the Democratic Party following Harris’ loss to Trump.
The National Action Network convention drew several potential Democratic candidates, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, among others.
Reporting by Brad Brooks in Colorado and Dan Fastenberg, editing by Scott Malone and Deepa Babington
Crude futures hovered near $100 a barrel as attacks continued and the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz remained heavily restricted, and concerns lingered over potential supply disruptions in Saudi Arabia
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Oil futures settled lower on Friday and posted their biggest weekly decline since 2022 ahead of talks between Iran and the U.S. aimed at securing a permanent ceasefire.
Crude futures hovered near $100 a barrel as attacks continued and the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz remained heavily restricted, and concerns lingered over potential supply disruptions in Saudi Arabia. Prices in the physical market were at record highs.
Brent futures settled down 72 cents, or 0.8%, at $95.20 a barrel, capping a week in which contracts fell 12.7%. The decline followed a sharp selloff after Iran and the U.S. agreed on Tuesday to a two‑week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan.
It was Brent’s steepest weekly loss since August 2022.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell $1.30, or 1.3%, to settle at $96.57 a barrel, with a weekly decline of 13.4%, its largest since April 2020 during lockdowns for the pandemic.
“The key issue for the oil market is whether ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz will resume. So far, there are no signs of this happening. If oil supplies from the Persian Gulf remain blocked, oil prices are likely to rise again,” Commerzbank analysts said in a note on Friday.
Traffic through the strait remained less than 10% of normal volumes as Tehran warned ships to keep to its territorial waters. Most ships that have sailed through the Strait in the past day were linked to Iran, ship-tracking data showed on Friday.
Iran wants to charge fees for ships to pass through the strait under a peace deal, a Tehran official told Reuters on April 7. Western leaders and the United Nations’ shipping agency have pushed back on that idea.
The crucial artery for oil and gas flows has been effectively shut down by the conflict that began when the U.S. and Israel launched air strikes against Iran on February 28.
More than 60 energy infrastructure assets across the Gulf have been hit by drone and missile strikes. While most attacks are not expected to cause prolonged disruptions, at least eight facilities face lengthy repair timelines, according to a Thursday note from Natasha Kaneva, head of global commodities research at J.P. Morgan.
Middle East producers shut in about 7.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil production in March as storage capacity tightened, with outages projected to rise to 9.1 million bpd in April, the Energy Information Administration said in a report earlier this week.
The sharp hit to global oil production from the Iran war is poised to flip the oil market into a supply deficit this year, analysts say, a huge swing in forecasts that erases previous expectations of comfortable oversupply.
Still, producers in the Middle East have asked Asian refiners to submit crude oil loading programmes for April and May in preparation for the eventual resumption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, three sources with knowledge of the matter said.
SAUDI DISRUPTION, RUSSIA WAIVER
Prices steadied on Friday as investors balanced lower Saudi output with diplomatic progress. Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Thursday that attacks on Saudi energy facilities have cut the kingdom’s oil production capacity by about 600,000 barrels per day and reduced its East-West Pipeline throughput by about 700,000 bpd.
Meanwhile, Lebanon said it intends to take part in a meeting with U.S. and Israeli representatives in Washington next week to discuss and announce a ceasefire.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is likely to extend as soon as Friday a waiver allowing countries to buy some sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for the third time in four weeks, Baker Hughes <BKR.O> said in its closely followed report on Friday. This week’s decline puts the total rig count down 38 rigs, or about 7% below this time last year, the energy services firm said.
Russia’s crude oil exports from its main western ports increased in early April compared with March, according to trading sources and Reuters calculations, despite disruptions to loadings caused by drone attacks on energy infrastructure.
Reporting by Siddharth Cavale in New York, Robert Harvey in London, Colleen Howe in Beijing and Siyi Liu in SingaporeEditing by David Goodman, Christina Fincher and David Gregorio
German newspaper Handelsblatt reported earlier on Friday that ChatGPT would fall under the DSA, meaning it would face tighter regulation
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The European Commission on Friday said it was analysing whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform should be considered a large online platform under the rules of the Digital Services Act (DSA), after it reported user numbers above the threshold.
“OpenAI has published user numbers for ChatGPT above the 45 million DSA threshold for designation,” Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said.
“The Commission services are currently assessing this information.”
Regnier said Large Language Models could potentially be in the scope of the DSA, but that this had to be analysed on a “case-by-case basis.”
German newspaper Handelsblatt reported earlier on Friday that ChatGPT would fall under the DSA, meaning it would face tighter regulation.
OpenAI said it had published the average number of monthly active recipients for ChatGPT search in line with existing obligations, adding this referred to users in the European Union over the past six months.
According to data supplied by OpenAI, ChatGPT search had approximately 120.4 million average monthly active users in the EU over the six-month period to end-September 2025.
Writing by Matthias Williams and Bart Meijer, Editing by Linda Pasquini, Kirsten Donovan
The central bank’s backing will send a signal of confidence to markets, as well as the governments of some smaller EU countries
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The European Central Bank on Friday endorsed the European Commission’s plan to better integrate EU capital markets through joint supervision, but cautioned the move needed to be adequately staffed and financed.
The push for financial market players to be supervised at an EU rather than national level is part of an attempt – led by France and Germany – to boost the bloc’s competitiveness as it struggles with weak growth and fierce competition from the US and China.
The central bank’s backing will send a signal of confidence to markets, as well as the governments of some smaller EU countries, such as Ireland and Luxembourg, that have not been enthusiastic about the plan.
In an opinion, the ECB said it was fully in favour of stronger EU‑level oversight of systemically important, cross‑border financial market players, including major trading venues, central counterparties, central securities depositories and crypto-asset service providers.
The Commission has proposed such oversight be moved from national authorities to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris.
“The ECB fully supports the Commission proposals, which constitute an ambitious step towards deeper integration of capital markets and financial market supervision within the Union,” the ECB said in the opinion that is required by the EU legislative process, but is not binding for lawmakers.
The central bank said it should have a non-voting seat on the board of ESMA and that its expertise should be taken into account not just in relation to supervisory decisions, but also technical standards, guidelines and recommendations.
The ECB noted that ESMA needed to be given sufficient resources and staffing to take on the additional responsibilities and advised that the transition from national to EU-level supervision be sequenced to minimise disruption.
The Commission proposal will now be negotiated between EU governments and the European Parliament in a process that is likely to take months, before it becomes law.
Reporting by Jan StrupczewskiEditing by Christina Fincher
Police divert traffic following serious single-vehicle collision
Update (5:59pm): Bermuda Police Service –
Around 4:35 p.m. on Friday April 10, 2026, Police and Emergency Medical Services personnel, were dispatched to a report of a single vehicle road traffic collision involving a motorcycle on Middle Road, near the junction with Sleepy Hollow Lane, Warwick.
It was reported that the male rider was unconscious and was being immediately transported by ambulance to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment of his injuries, which are considered serious.
The scene is currently being processed and it is anticipated the roadway will be closed for an extended period.
Traffic diversions are currently in place at the junctions of Middle Road and Tamarind Vale as well as Middle Road and Burnt House Hill.
Where possible motorists are urged to use Harbour Road or South Road to get to their destinations.
Police are on the scene of a serious single-vehicle road traffic collision involving a motorcycle near the junction of Middle Road and Sleepy Hollow Lane in Warwick.
The roadway is currently blocked, and traffic diversions are in place at the junctions of Middle Road and Tamarind Vale, as well as Middle Road and Burnt House Hill.
We will provide updates as information becomes available.
Food Hub in Flatts has relocated operations to Devonshire – a move its owner says was already planned but now comes amid backlash over viral videos showing what appeared to be untidy scene inside the kitchen.
The restaurateur insists those images are outdated and do not reflect current conditions.
The takeaway and delivery spot has now moved to its sister site Pinky’s in Devonshire, combining menus and continuing delivery services from the new location.
Management says the move helps them “demonstrate… that we are serious about safety, not just physical safety but the sense of safety,” while the Flatts location undergoes renovations and prepares for a relaunch under the direction of a new Head Chef. A plan that has been in the works since last year but has since been sped up.
Readers might be aware of videos that made the rounds on social media earlier this week appearing to show unsanitary conditions inside the original kitchen.
In response, owner Marico Thomas says the issue was addressed last year, adding, “the situation was corrected and has been controlled.”
He says steps included retraining staff, removing some employees, and reinforcing standards, which he says adherence to is mandatory.
Mr Thomas also pushed back on the timing of the footage, stressing, “this matter is NOT current” and that the images “do NOT reflect the corrections taken, nor the reestablishment of the standards.”
He said: “The recent public outcry has been tough, harder because we had already taken the steps to rectify the situation and because a former employee (the videographer) was directly responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the premises.”
The Department of Health says it understands the public’s concern, calling the footage “disturbing” and “unacceptable.”
However, officials say they were told the video is several months old.
A surprise inspection carried out the same night the videos surfaced found no evidence of pests.
Mr Thomas echoed that, saying inspectors found “nothing… zero,” and that the business meets its current health rating of a B.
As for the site switch-up, Mr Thomas described the timing as useful, allowing them to accelerate plans to prepare the Flatts store and the neighbourhood for something new.
He said: “We were going to change Flatts anyway, we are just doing it now. “
Meantime, health officials say the establishment will continue to be monitored and expressed appreciation for the community’s vigilance.
Anyone with food safety concerns should report them directly to Environmental Health on 278-5333.
The hospital’s former Chief of Emergency doesn’t want his fierce criticism of past and present healthcare decisions to become a political football
A former Bermuda Hospital’s Board Chief of Emergency physician, Dr. Edward Shultz, has sought to clarify his position when observing the present situation with emergency care and hospital overcrowding.
He calls on the Government and the Opposition to work together on solutions – several of which he has proposed.
Dr. Schultz said, “Going back and blaming politicians that were in power 15 years ago makes no sense.”
He also affirmed that his decision to go public with his concerns about emergency care is due to the Bermuda Hospitals Board failing to act on his recommendations, whereas he found the Government to be very responsive.
Dr. Shultz, who served as Director then Chief of Emergency for 30 years until 2018, then served on the BHB board until late 2024, has gone public this week with fierce criticism of the construction of the new Acute Care Wing at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Paget. He says it reduced ED bed space by 27% and was designed without surge capacity, or fast track for minor complaints.
However, he said he proposed a number of solutions to the hospital in January that could be swiftly implemented – such as boarding admitted patients on wards rather than in corridors in ED, and converting the large open space areas for holding patients during peak capacity.
Negative comments on media reporting of his letter of concern prompted Dr. Shultz to push back against any politicising of his opinions. He says that the likelihood of such a reaction was why he had preferred to make his case “behind the scenes” up until now.
He said, “True to form, supporters of the political opposition have used this platform to attack the Government on a variety of topics…
“This is not helpful – and only diverts energies – that should be combined in unison by both political parties – to address a healthcare crisis that places the wellbeing of everyone resident on these islands at risk.”
Dr. Shultz also stressed that the “Ministry of Health and Minister [Kim] Wilson in particular – as well as the Bermuda Government in general – have done absolutely everything that I have requested in order to bring a resolution to this crisis.
“Had the Bermuda Hospitals Board acted in equally good faith I would never have gone public with my concerns”.
In our interview with Dr. Shultz (WATCH above), he elaborated on the need to resist making his comments a “political football”.
When questioned if a commission of inquiry, which he has called for, could shine a light on the decisions that led to the construction of the hospital’s Acute Care Wing, he conceded that it could.
However, he added that “trying to blame what happened in the past doesn’t serve any purpose.”
“What we need to do is move forward and fix the situation,” he said.
Adding to these comments today, Dr Shultz said, “we can’t undo the flawed design of the Acute Care Wing, the failure by multiple governments to prepare for the quite predictable impact of our aging population on our ability to provide high quality medical care in Bermuda in the 21st century…
“What we can do – and what we must do as a unified community undeterred by political divisions – is to demand better access to Emergency Care in this country – and hold accountable from this point forward anyone or any organization that might impede us from attaining that goal.”
Dr. Schutz concluded, “Reliving the past achieves nothing except to explain how we got here. What really counts is that we collectively do the right things moving forward.”
WATCH Dr Edward Shultz’ comments on the politicisation of healthcare above.
The Bermuda Bicycle Association Winners Edge Road Race takes place on Sunday, April 12, with traffic controls in place across St. David’s Island and The Causeway between 8.00am and 11.00am
Motorists are being asked to use caution and follow the instructions of Race Marshals this Sunday as the Bermuda Bicycle Association (BBA) holds its Winners Edge Road Race across parts of the East End.
According to a Traffic Order issued by the Ministry of Public Works and Environment, the race will run from 8.00am to 11.00am on Sunday, April 12, 2026. There will be no road closures, but Race Marshals will be positioned along the route to direct traffic.
The race starts and finishes at Kindley Field Road. Riders will head east to the Swing Bridge roundabout before proceeding through St. David’s Road, Clearwater Middle School, Pepper Hall Road, and Tommy Fox Road. The route then continues via Lower Gates Road, returning to the Swing Bridge roundabout before heading along Kindley Field Road to the Airport roundabout, onto The Causeway, and up Blue Hole Hill, where riders will make a U-turn at the Blue Hole Hill roundabout before retracing the route to the finish line.
The Ministry is asking for the full cooperation of the motoring public and has apologised for any inconvenience the event may cause.
Motorists with questions about the event can contact race representative Greg Hopkins at 296-6012.
The order was issued by the Hon. Jache Adams, JP, MP, Minister of Public Works and Environment, under the Road Traffic Act 1947 (Traffic Order No. 31/2026).
Media release supplied by the Ministry of Public Works and Environment.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index ended flat at 10,600.5 points on the day, clocking its third straight weekly gain
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The main UK stock indexes recorded weekly gains after an agreement between the United States and Iran on a two-week ceasefire sent global stocks surging earlier this week, with the focus now on peace talks over the weekend.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index ended flat at 10,600.5 points on the day, clocking its third straight weekly gain. The midcap FTSE 250 climbed 0.7%, recording its second consecutive week of gains. * Global stocks were sanguine as traders awaited the outcomeof U.S.-Iran peace talks set to be held in Pakistan’s capital,Islamabad, on Saturday. * The Strait of Hormuz remained shut on Friday and Israeltraded fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which the United Statesand Iran each described as violations of their ceasefire deal. * Stocks rebounded earlier this week as oil prices slidfollowing the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, raising hopeof a revival in shipping through the strait. * However, the flow of oil from the Gulf remains heavilyrestricted, keeping futures prices near $100 a barrel. * On the data front, U.S. consumer prices increased by themost in nearly four years, though an underlying measure ofinflation that excludes the volatile food and energy componentsrose only moderately last month. * AO World gained 7% after the British electronicsretailer said it expected annual profit at the top end of itsforecast range, after gaining market share across all keycategories in its consumer-focused business. * B&M’s shares fell 4.6% as interim CFO Helen Cowing leftthe British discount retailer after less than five months in thejob, the company said. * Defence contractor BAE Systems shed 3.3%, while airlineWizz Air surged 7.2% after a Bloomberg report said Ukraine’s topnegotiator with Russia saw progress towards a potential peacedeal with Russia.
Reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Shashwat Chauhan in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore and Christina Fincher
The move comes as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva steps up efforts on public security, a key issue in Latin America’s largest economy, as he seeks a new term in October’s general election
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The Brazilian government on Friday announced a joint initiative with the U.S. to combat organized crime, involving the integration of data from Brazil’s federal tax authority with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The move comes as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva steps up efforts on public security, a key issue in Latin America’s largest economy, as he seeks a new term in October’s general election.
Lula has seen his lead in opinion polls evaporate, with surveys now pointing to a run-off tie with his main rival, right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro.
Since last year, Brazil’s tax authority has played a central role in major operations uncovering money laundering schemes linked to criminal organizations in the fuel sector, identifying multiple operations abroad.
Lula has publicly called on U.S. President Donald Trump to arrest the owner of Refit, one of the main companies involved in the scheme, who resides in the United States.
Still there are tensions between the U.S. and Brazilian governments regarding the best approach to tackle organized crime.
Last year, U.S. officials had asked Brazil to label major gangs terrorist organizations, but Brazilians refused to do so.
According to a government statement on Friday, the joint initiative aims to integrate intelligence efforts to intercept illicit shipments of weapons and narcotics.
Brazil’s tax revenue secretary, Robinson Barreirinhas, said more than 1,100 weapons arriving from the United States had been seized over the past 12 months, adding that authorities confiscated more than 1.5 tons of drugs in the first quarter alone, mainly synthetic drugs and hashish.
Finance Minister Dario Durigan said the agreement was made possible after talks between Lula and Trump gained momentum.
The Brazilian government had hoped the announcement would coincide with an in‑person meeting between Lula and Trump, originally expected in March. The meeting did not materialize and now has no clear timeline following the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
Reporting by Isabel Teles and Marcela Ayres; Editing by Toby Chopra and Andrea Ricci
Those injured, including three in serious condition, were taken to the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Hospital, local emergency services said in a social media post
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At least one person died and 27 were injured after a bus carrying British tourists crashed down a ravine on the Spanish island of La Gomera, emergency services said on Friday.
Those injured, including three in serious condition, were taken to the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Hospital, local emergency services said in a social media post. They added that the occupants were 27 British nationals and the driver.
The accident happened when the vehicle came off the GM-2 road. La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, is popular with visitors from northern Europe.
Reporting by Graham Keeley; editing by Philippa Fletcher
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